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Author : Roger A. Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book B-17, Fortress at War written by Roger A. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William N Hess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782008373
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the MTO written by William N Hess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as 'minor leaguers' by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a 'major league' job on Axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in November 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were of course the venerable B-17 and B-24. At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing. Having been a part of the Fifteenth Air Force in 1944, author Bill Hess has long been waiting to write a definitive account on 'his air force'.
Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : Zenith Imprint
ISBN 13 : 9780760325223
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (252 download)
Download or read book B-17 at War written by Bill Yenne and published by Zenith Imprint. This book was released on 2006 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-17 bomber was America’s flying icon, from its inauspicious start (the prototype crashed a mere two months after its launch in 1935) to its starring role in World War II (serving first the RAF and then the U.S. Army Air Force, in every combat zone) to its eventual status as the grand old bomber without peer. Noted aviation author Bill Yenne takes readers through the hits and misses of the B-17’s development, the deployment of the different models, the missions flown, and the men who flew them. The At War series features books on military equipment and elite military units, including exciting first-person accounts and descriptions of combat and equipment as seen through the eyes of soldiers and other military personnel.
Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345283085
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Flying Forts written by Martin Caidin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1979-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the B-17, her prewar trials, the pilots who flew her and her action packed role in World War II
Author : Frederick A. Johnsen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book B-17 Flying Fortress written by Frederick A. Johnsen and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-17 pioneered the concepts of strategic bombardment. This work gives technical detail along with little-known facts and stories, as well as accounts of missions, production, avionics, development and the people behind the development of the B-17.
Author : Scott Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963754301
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Final Cut written by Scott Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5th Edition of book originally published in 1990. This book tells the story of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress in the years after World War II, and includes the stories of each of the surviving 48 B-17s.
Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472800524
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (part 2) written by Martin Bowman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war. This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.
Author : Larry Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book B-17 in Action written by Larry Davis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captioned photos, illustrations, and brief text describe the design, development, and uses of the American bomber.
Author : David Doyle
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764359552
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (595 download)
Download or read book B-17 Flying Fortress, Vol. 1 written by David Doyle and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most iconic aircraft in aviation history. Through a broad range of photos gathered from around the world, this book, the first of a two-volume series, chronicles the design, development, and wartime use of the early models of the Flying Fortress, from the ill-fated experimental model 299 through the B-17D, including the famous "Swoose." These early models are distinguished by their narrow fuselage, art deco styling, and a small, "shark fin" tail. A second volume will continue the B-17 story with the large-tail later models, B-17E through B-17H. The story of these iconic WWII aircraft is told through carefully researched photos, many of which have never before been published, and which are reproduced in remarkable clarity. Large, clear photos, coupled with descriptive and informative captions, unlock the secrets of this aircraft.
Author : T/Sgt James Lee Hutchinson EdS
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146707022X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Boys in the B-17 written by T/Sgt James Lee Hutchinson EdS and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author in flight gear after photo twelfth mission second Air Medal (age nineteen) He still wears lucky Air Cadet ring! Hutch's third book contains short stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews in deadly missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II and stories of his own teenage combat experiences as radio/gunner on twenty missions with the Mighty Eighth. Teenagers enlisted or were drafted, trained and went into combat before they could legally vote or buy a drink. They volunteered to fly in the Army's Air Cadet Program and became a part of the greatest air armada in the world. Most of the gunners on a bomber crew were teenagers and the average age of officers was twenty-four. Veterans' memoirs and diaries give amazing reports of fighter attacks, flak damage and those who survived being shot down out to become Prisoners of War. These youngsters manned the planes that bombed and destroyed Germanys military and war industry. The price of victory was high, with an extreme loss of aircrews and planes. Eighth Air Force losses were among the highest of any military unit. Like the author, teenagers who survived to tell the stories of those great air battles are now in their mid-eighties and rapidly passing into history. See previous books "Through These Eyes" and "Bombs Away!" See a free DVD at http://video.smithville.net/?p=17 for interviews of the author with actual WW II combat film footage.
Author : H. P. Willmott
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780130567130
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book B-17 Flying Fortress written by H. P. Willmott and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes America's most famous bomber in World War II, and explains how the plane influenced the outcome of the war and its role in the devastation of Germany by the Allies
Author : Craig A. Kleinsmith
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476683298
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book B-17 Gunner written by Craig A. Kleinsmith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M. Eyer served as a B-17 ball turret gunner over Europe during World War II. Based in part on a secret journal he kept as a prisoner of war, this book records Eyer's firsthand account of his harrowing 59 combat missions (B-17 crewmen could not expect to survive 10), his escape from a burning B-17 deep inside Germany, the horrors of confinement in a Nazi POW camp, and his survival of an 80-day forced march during the brutal winter of 1944-45.
Author : Steve Snyder
Publisher : Sea Breeze Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0986076007
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Shot Down written by Steve Snyder and published by Sea Breeze Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shot Down is a compelling story of our B-17 aircrews that flew, fought, and died over Europe to save a continent from tyranny and oppression. There were over 56,000 downed airmen in World War II. Lt. Howard Snyder and the crew of the Susan Ruth were one of those crews that went down over Europe... --General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, retired, 33rd Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force." -- back cover
Author : Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Arms & Armour
ISBN 13 : 9781854095220
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (952 download)
Download or read book The B-17 Flying Fortress Story written by Roger Anthony Freeman and published by Arms & Armour. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-17 Flying Fortress was a major factor in the success of the Allied war against Germany. It was the epitome of a challenge faced, fought and won, a powerful aircraft that achieved celebrity status adn retained it through the war, operating extensively with the US 8th Air Force from bases throughout East Anglia.
Author : Roger A. Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856483568
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (835 download)
Download or read book B-17 Fortress B-29 Superfortress at War written by Roger A. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Doyle
Publisher : In Action
ISBN 13 : 9780897476225
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (762 download)
Download or read book B-17 Flying Fortress in Action written by David Doyle and published by In Action. This book was released on 2015 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-17 Flying Fortress dropped more bombs than any other US aircraft in WWII and is arguably the iconic bomber of that epic conflict. During the 10 years in which it was produced, a total of 12,731 of the B-17 heavy bombers rolled off the assembly lines of Boeing, Douglas Aircraft, and Lockheed's subsidiary Vega. First flown in 1935, the aircraft was repeatedly modified, upgraded, and perfected in response to combat experience. Also highlights the roles played by individual aircraft and their crews, including Memphis Belle, which completed 25 missions over enemy territory; Stage Door Canteen, christened by Winston Churchill's daughter; and All American, which demonstrated the incredible toughness of the Flying Fortress by returning safely to base despite having its tail nearly sheared off by a Messerschmitt.
Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853677540
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (775 download)
Download or read book B-17 Combat Missions written by Martin W. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-17 Flying Fortress is, along with the British Avro-Lancaster, the most famed heavy bomber of World War II. More than 12,000 B-17s were built and the planes were the mainstay of the Eighth Air Force's campaign of daylight precision-bombing raids on targets in Germany and the occupied territories. Unsurprisingly, given the B-17s pre-eminent role in the war, many books have been published on the aircraft and the men who flew in them. These fall into two categories. On one hand there are the largely text-only books recounting the experiences of the airmen who flew B-17 missions (most famously, Brian D. O'Neill's Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer, and John Comer's Combat Crew); on the other are the many illustrated books that focus mainly on the plane's technical development and capabilities. Uniquely, B-17: Combat Missions combines the two approaches, describing in detail both the technical role of each crew-member, and following this up with extensive first-hand reports, many drawn from previously unpublished oral histories, showing what it was like to be, for example, a ball-turret gunner or a co-pilot. Equipment is described in detail, as is what it was like to use it. Throughout the book, the text is accompanied by newly commissioned and archive photos. In the introductory and final chapters, daily life is described for the airmen when not flying on missions. Photos of magazines, posters and other items of memorabilia evoke the atmosphere of the time, complementing the vivid picture drawn of the brave men of the US Eighth in action in the 'wide blue yonder'. AUTHOR: Martin Bowman is the author of eighty-six books on USAF/USN and RN/RAF operations. For many years he has been a frequent contributor of photographic and written articles to Flight International, Rolls-Royce Magazine, and Aeroplane Monthly. Major General Lewis E. Lyle (USAF Retd) led the 379th bomb group in World War II. SELLING POINTS: * The first fully illustrated book to combine operational and design information with first-hand accounts of combat missions * More than 200 photographs * Newly researched oral histories featured throughout
